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English A traditional American-style fire hydrant.
Pronunciation
Noun fire hydrant plural fire hydrants
( firefighting ) firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.
Derived terms
Translations a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main
Arabic: صُنْبُور حَرِيق m ( ṣunbūr ḥarīq ) , صُنْبُور اِطْفَاء حَرِيق m ( ṣunbūr iṭfāʔ ḥarīq )
Azerbaijani: hidrant yanğın hidrantı
Belarusian: пажа́рны гідра́т m ( pažárny hidrát ) , гідра́нт m ( hidránt )
Bulgarian: пожа́рен кран m ( požáren kran ) , хидра́нт (bg) ( hidránt )
Catalan: hidrant m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 消防栓 (zh) ( xiāofángshuān ) , 街井 (zh) ( jiējǐng ) , 消防龍頭 / 消防龙头 (zh) ( xiāofáng lóngtóu ) , 消火栓 (zh) ( xiāohuǒshuān )
Czech: požární hydrant m hydrant (cs) m
Danish: brandhane (da) c
Dutch: brandkraan (nl) f hydrant (nl) m
Esperanto: hidranto
Estonian: tuletõrjehüdrant
Finnish: paloposti (fi)
French: borne d'incendie (fr) f bouche d'incendie (fr) f ( France ) , borne hydrante (fr) f ( Switzerland, Louisiana, Missouri ) , borne-fontaine (fr) f ( Québec, Lousiana, New England, Missouri ) , poteau d'incendie (fr) m
German: Hydrant (de) m Feuerhahn m ( uncommon )
Greek: στόμιο υδροληψίας n ( stómio ydrolipsías )
Hungarian: tűzcsap (hu)
Icelandic: brunahani m
Indonesian: hidran (id)
Irish: hiodrant dóiteáin m coca dóiteáin m
Italian: idrante (it) m
Japanese: 消火栓 (ja) ( しょうかせん, shōkasen )
Kazakh: гидрант ( gidrant )
Korean: 소화전(消火栓) (ko) ( sohwajeon )
Kyrgyz: гидрант ( gidrant )
Latvian: ugunsdzēsības hidrants m
Lithuanian: gaisrinis hidrantas m
Macedonian: хидра́нт m ( hidránt ) , противпожарен хидра́нт m ( protivpožaren hidránt )
Malay: pili bomba (ms)
Navajo: kǫʼ bee niltsésí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hydrant m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: شیرِ آتَشنِشانی ( šir-e âtaš-nešâni )
Plautdietsch: Fiarua n
Polish: hydrant (pl) m
Portuguese: boca de incêndio (pt) f hidrante (pt) m ( Brazil )
Romanian: gură de incendiu (ro) f hidrant (ro) n
Russian: пожа́рный гидра́нт m ( požárnyj gidránt ) , гидра́нт (ru) m ( gidránt )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хѝдрант m
Roman: hìdrant (sh) m
Slovak: hydrant m požiarny hydrant m
Slovene: požarni hidrant m hidrant m
Spanish: hidrante m boca de incendio f
Swedish: brandpost (sv) c
Tagalog: boka-insendiyo bokaysendiyo
Tajik: гидрант ( gidrant )
Thai: หัวดับเพลิง ( hǔua-dàp-pləəng )
Tibetan: མེ་གསོད་ཆུ་སྒོ། ( me gsod chu sgo )
Turkish: yangın musluğu (tr)
Ukrainian: поже́жний гідра́нт m ( požéžnyj hidránt ) , гідра́нт m ( hidránt )
Uzbek: gidrant (uz)
Vietnamese: trụ cứu hỏa trụ chữa cháy
Welsh: hydrant m
Yiddish: הידראַנט m ( hidrant ) , לעשפּלומפּ m ( leshplump )
See also
Further reading 
fire hydrant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 